Gustavo Castillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday March 3, 2023, p. 17
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) extradited to United States authorities Ismael Quintero Arellanes, identified as the person in charge of providing security and protection to Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the Guadalajara cartel in the 1980s and a few years ago of the Caborca cartel.
The ministerial institution reported that in compliance with the treaty signed between Mexico and the United States, it extradited a person of Mexican nationality required by the federal court for the eastern district of New York for the crimes of criminal association, against health and illegal possession. of weapons.
The extradited was part of a criminal organization in which he was responsible for the logistics of drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, as well as its manufacture and transportation to send it to that country. In addition, was in charge of the security and protection of another member of the same criminal gang
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After exhausting the legal stages, the Mexican government granted the extradition of the defendant, arrested in January 2020 in Culiacán, Sinaloa. The delivery was made at the Mexico City International Airport to the designated US agents for its final transfer.
